I sometimes do not have goot network connects,so I need offline openwrt docs.
I try to use wget,but it does not work well.
So how can I do?
(I need a offline version of https://openwrt.org/docs/)
This doesn't exist. It's been asked before, but there isn't a practical way of exporting all the documentation.
You could visit the pages of interest and make pdfs -- that's a good way to get all the text and graphics in a single offline file.
But i need the whole docs,it is too much.
Like I said, there is no way to do this. Just 'print' the ones you need to pdf.
All of these threads (and probably others) asked the same question -- but this is not currently possible.
Ok,thanks.
That seems like a strange answer, considering I already did it a few weeks ago. Or, a lot of it anyways, more than 1.2 GB, if I remember correctly.
Can you give it to me?Thank very much
If it's such a strange answer and it's been done a few weeks ago (mind you, the Wiki had issues a few weeks ago) maybe the poster could simply explain how to do it.
With that information everyone could benefit from this obscure feature of the Wiki discovered by @Shplad.
No need to hide the information.
A simple Web crawling program will do the trick. I used httrack.
Thank you for clarifying. Installing a 3rd party web copier HTTrack was the method you employed to get an offline Wiki. I appreciate the information.
There's also an internet archive dump from September 2023 https://archive.org/details/wiki-openwrt.org-20230923
It's discouraged though - Create local Mirror - #6 by jow
for images/downloads cloning - not for docs though
If it'll help someone, I could upload this to my Google Drive account and post a download link.
Again, this isn't the whole site, but it is over 1GB of it (which is a lot of pages).
I’d like an offline copy of the docs/wiki. I don’t care about formatting (I’ll figure it out).
Scraping may have been a viable option back in February of 2024, but the mood seems to have shifted from something like “Yeah, sure, it’s fine to go ahead and scrape the documentation” to instead employing active countermeasures: Trying out Anubis on the Wiki
Are there any present methods for downloading the docs that are… permissible?
It was never permissible to scrape the Wiki site. That is [one reason] why Anubis needed to be employed (the first sentence of the linked thread says as much).
The Wiki used to be so slow - that it was difficult to navigate, and at times unusable.
And figuring out the significant waste of bandwidth and resources for others?
It's pretty rare for someone to need a true offline copy of the entire wiki. Under normal circumstances, there would only be a few key docs that might be needed for those configuring OpenWrt as the main router since there may be some downtime during that phase. But most of the rest of the stuff can almost always be reached once an internet connection is available again (and if internet won't be available, many of those same docs are of limited to no value).
Given that it shouldn't be much that you really need offline, just view the page, hit print, and create a PDF.
Thank you for the considerate reply.
Amongst the reason I’d like a copy of the wiki: If I am without Internet because my router is not working, then I am unable to browse the wiki. It’s a catch-22 of the sort that I have experienced previously, and that I wish to prevent.
Another reason is just so that the world has more than one copy of the contents independently available.
Is there some technological limitation that prevents the wiki’s content (in whatever form) from being stuffed into a tar.gz file and being posted somewhere?
Or is the main hurdle instead some combination of money and [interested] manpower?
(To that end: I have some money – I’m not rich, but I can contribute some to this effort. I also have some free time. I’m interested in helping to supply copies of the wiki to the world, if anyone else ever wants it.)
I do get that, but there is a ton in the wiki that there's very little chance you'll need offline. For example, do you plan to be doing development (i.e. software engineering, compiling, etc.)? Do you need an offline history of the OpenWrt releases? What about information about string up media servers or email servers? How about print servers?
There are just a handful of documents that are critical to get online.... in fact, the 4 I can think of immediately are the ones that are of use when troubleshooting (we ask for these files all the time): network, firewall, dhcp/dnsmasq, and wireless.
It seems to me that, even if you are setting up all sorts of other things (maybe setting up your router as a NAS or UPS monitoring, etc.), you'd really want your router to be online and working normally for basic internet before jumping into any of that stuff. And in most cases, it's not likely that these services would break your connection.
And I don't know your situation and physical location, but I'd argue that most people have a smart phone that they can use in a pinch for internet access (either on the phone itself or using your computer via tethering).
And among those, only one will be really required to get online and 'working' (well enough to get into the details later). Maybe a second one, if you have really exotic means to configure the wan interface.
Exactly, if you enter unknown territory, iterate in small steps - from one functional point to the next. Trying to get everything right on the first attempt and with no prior experience will never succeed - making the whole impossible to debug at the same time.